Cloud contracts ‘need more transparency’

Buyers of commercial cloud services, especially software as a service (SaaS), are finding security provisions inadequate. Gartner, Inc. said SaaS contracts often have ambiguous terms regarding the maintenance of data confidentiality, data integrity and recovery after a data loss incident. This leads to dissatisfaction among cloud services users. It also makes it harder for service providers to manage risk and defend their risk position to auditors and regulators.

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Offshore providers without a Cloud strategy risk long-term future

While the increased use of industrialised services will reduce the volume of traditional and customised services, the impact on offshore providers will be counterbalanced by new revenue from investments in cloud-based services, said Gartner, Inc. However, service providers that are slow, unable or unwilling to invest in the shift to the cloud will risk hampering offshore services revenue growth.

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Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator V3.1.3 released

Latest version extends storage capabilities and enhanced dynamic workload placement to support a variety of cloud service providers’ different business requirements.

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